How to Use mystification in a Sentence

mystification

noun
  • My friend repeated that sentence to me three times, each time with more mystification and pain.
    — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • That, at least, is the belief of the nameless narrator of this work of epic mystification.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The feminine mystique has always been a mystification, and a useful one at that.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2023
  • On Twitter, users have expressed shock and mystification over the design.
    — Marc Bain, Quartz, 9 June 2021
  • The sense of wonder, awe, even mystification, was evident in the crowd’s feverish applause.
    — Steve Volk, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2015
  • There’s a sort of indifference that turns into mystification that turns into sadness around that.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2022
  • The Texas singer-songwriter’s daughter Lana peeled away some of the layers of mystification not long ago.
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 25 Apr. 2023
  • My favorite element, which mirrors my mystification at the matter-of-factness of the image, is an adorably witless donkey.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Money and mystification, not knowledge or ignorance, are its cardinal points.
    — Longreads, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Han has a perfect ear for a child’s perception of the world, that uncanny mixture of confidence, innocence and mystification.
    — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2020
  • There has been some mystification in Washington as to why administration successes have not registered more.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
  • There’s a commentarial dimension to this image, about the marketing, in part through mystification, of contemporary health care.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 13 July 2023
  • This is important because the current, rampant mystification isn’t accidental.
    — Tom Boellstorff, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Writing about writing can be a tough trick to pull off without descending into cliches about troubled geniuses or mystification of the creative process itself or even pandering about the nobility of books and the people who read them.
    — Kathleen Rooney, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2017
  • The contact with and dependence on such support arguably also bolstered art’s worldliness and acted as an antidote to the petit bourgeois affinity for idealist mystification.
    — Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
  • After Honestly, Nevermind dropped, lots of people expressed mystification on social media that Drake had started making oontz oontz (or untz untz) music.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 July 2022
  • One interviewee, a teenager at the time of the festival, expresses mystification at having evolved from a mild-mannered kid to a destructive Lord of the Flies character over the course of the weekend.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 July 2021
  • Throughout, however, the biography is judicious on topics that often inspire hyperbole and mystification.
    — Donald S. Lopez, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
  • As with other elements of a mega-celebrity’s life, a front-facing, pathbreaking pregnancy like Rihanna’s necessitates a certain level of mystification of the pains taken behind the scenes.
    — The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Barthesian mystifications notwithstanding, translation is a concrete art.
    — Benjamin Moser, New York Times, 28 June 2018
  • The December 1941 attacks are the subject of considerable mystification in the United States.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Even among many people with a biological science background who in the abstract understand genes in all their conceptual and biophysical glory there is often a concrete mystification as to the power of genes to shape behavior across the generations.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2012
  • John Berger’s idea of ‘mystification,’ for example, describes how the ‘original’ upholds ‘ideological interests of the ruling class’ through arcane ways of emphasizing technique.
    — Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • Institutions, after all, reliably use mystification to escape accountability and oversight.
    — Charles Homans, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Critics often bemoan the unrealistic representation of archaeology and the mystification of historical facts.
    — Petar Parvanov, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2023
  • But, as British viewers found to their mystification, American TV eagerly advertises pharmaceutical remedies for practically every other imaginable human condition.
    — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2021

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